Teaching

University System of Georgia professors demand a mask mandate and more options for teaching students in quarantine. System considers disciplinary action, up to suspension, for professors who take COVID-19 mitigation into their own hands.

Pandemic issues aside, as faculty members return to in-person classes, age-related hearing problems are a tough obstacle that’s just going to get worse, argues David Galef.

For accessibility reasons alone, online classes and Zoom meetings should routinely offer a captioning option, but it has additional benefits, write David G. Myers and Morton Ann Gernsbacher.

Colleges and universities should reimagine student tutoring by incorporating new cognitive approaches, argue Daniel G. Long II and Jason Kapcala.

Colleges are taking different approaches in terms of how they’re using online learning in the second fall with COVID.

Laurence Musgrove pens a poem as the new academic year begins.

While long resisting grade inflation, Michael S. Berger found that without the normal in-person teaching to help motivate students during COVID, they struggled to meet the rigor he demanded.